Is there a reason to think all the other companies couldn’t start doing it to?
Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome
CocaineShrimp@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Hold up. Let me get this straight - Synology is trying to make their NASs only work with their own proprietary hard drives? Do they not realize that there are boat loads of other companies out there making NASs and Hard Drives?
Who the hell is going to want to buy a Synology NAS now? Ffs, some of these companies are so delusional…
tabular@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
because tons and tons of potential solutions exist. At the core of this class of product is a very simple computer that costs next to nothing. FOSS software exists to accomplish the same goal and for minimal cost someone can compete with them.
Synology doesn’t really control anything. In the enterprise segment they tend to be tiny little offerings that are on the small end of SMB. Their bigger bulkier enterprise stuff is easily overshadowed by any real enterprise offering from a larger hardware company, though i’ve seen some exist even in larger orgs but it’s not because something else couldn’t have done the job.
Anyone starting fresh has to do some work to catch up but it really depends on the use case. Basic NAS/DAS functions are so trivial.
primemagnus@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s once of those really myopic decisions that sink companies. But god bless em, they just keep trying lol
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Short term profits reign king once again
Gotta make the imaginary money line go up somehow